Soccer Night

Granada's head of sport Paul Doherty had been unhappy with the network coverage of Oldham's run to the Littlewoods Cup Final in 1990, and took the initiative to launch their own regional programme.Future series featured Rob McCaffrey, James Cooper and Peter Stevenson as the programme's host.Featured studio guests included north west players and managers, as well retired professionals and coaches.The theme tune used was "Beautiful Day" by Irish band U2, which was at the time used by ITV as the theme for all their football programming Wales Soccer Night (produced by ITV Wales) was axed in December 2005 in response to high viewer demand for the return of a full highlights programme on Sundays as opposed to the magazine-based format on late Thursday nights.Soccer Sunday returned on 15 January 2006 with extended highlights of Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham matches, presented by Jonny Owen (a local actor and assistant producer at ITV Wales) with match commentary provided by Bob Symonds and Phil Duffell.
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